Meet the Chiropractor: Dr. Thomas Baker

I am passionate about paediatric and family chiropractic care because I believe that families and kids deserve the best chance to live awesome lives!

I have firsthand experience on the effects of long-term chiropractic care on a growing and developing child. My journey into chiropractic started at four years old with my mum taking me and my sister after he informed her that he could help us with the health issues that she was noticing in me and my sister. I was one of those kids who was always suffering with a cough or a cold whenever the seasons changed, which would usually result in me going through round after round of antibiotics. On top of that, I was also suffering with chronic nose bleeds, where my nose would randomly start bleeding often up to 20 minutes at a time! Once I started my chiropractic journey, my mum quickly noticed that I was sick a lot less often, that my nose bleeds had stopped, and that I was also starting to behave myself more. After my symptoms disappeared, we continued to go to the chiropractor as a family for wellness chiropractic care.

Growing up in Australia, sport is a huge part of our lives and culture, and in my case I was no different and I still love participating in and watching sport. I spent most of my sporting life playing rugby, but I also played cricket, swimming, soccer, and Australian Rules Football, and would often be participating in some form of sport 5-6 days per week. This love of sport as well as a love for non-fiction books about the sciences set me up perfectly for a career in healthcare which is where I experienced some of the other effects of long-term consistent chiropractic care: injury prevention. Whilst many of my friends and teammates were struggling to keep up with the volume of sports, struggling with injuries and slow recovery, I was experiencing the opposite. Throughout all of the sports activities I was in, I had never had an injury that stopped me from playing! This realisation is what finally inspired me to pursue a career in chiropractic.

I moved across the pond from Australia to New Zealand, where I met my wife and chiropractor Katie. We graduated together from the New Zealand College of Chiropractic in 2016. After working in one of the busiest paediatric and family chiropractic practices in New Zealand, we made the easy decision in 2022 to move across the world to the Netherlands. We haven’t looked back since then and have decided to make the Netherlands our home with our style of paediatric and family chiropractic care as we are now owners of ONE Chiropractic Studio Utrecht & Amersfoort.

Since living in the Netherlands, we have welcomed two beautiful children, Lily and Lachie, into the world and being able to watch them grow and thrive whilst also being their chiropractor has strengthened my passion for paediatric and family chiropractic care and importance of the whole family being under care together.

Outside of the practice, you can find me regularly participating in a CrossFit class at Unscared, spending time playing and exploring with my kids and our other favourite thing to do is travel, we especially love travelling using a campervan.